Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 261 299
Rank change year-on-year -89 +38 -4
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 600 569 655
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.15% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.29% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 315 263 314
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,797 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,047 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.34% +0.07% -
75th Percentile £79,375 £87,500 £88,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £103,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,281 44,107 61,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.16% 89.14% 81.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,444 24,402 33,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%
75th Percentile £79,091 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -85 529 £60,000 -14.34% 2,052
London -32 303 £67,750 -15.31% 1,388
UK excluding London -137 237 £60,000 -4.00% 854
Work from Home -14 192 £59,338 -15.23% 774
North of England -49 65 £60,000 -22.58% 157
South East -102 57 £43,500 -30.40% 226
North West 0 50 £63,000 -8.36% 98
Midlands -40 37 £48,500 -19.83% 115
South West -68 34 £68,000 +16.49% 109
West Midlands -42 27 £48,500 -15.65% 71
East of England -35 24 £70,000 +6.87% 81
Yorkshire -39 14 £57,500 -28.13% 42
Scotland +18 13 £77,500 +82.35% 98
East Midlands -31 10 £38,347 -48.87% 44
Northern Ireland -87 4 - - 41
Wales -74 3 £65,000 +8.59% 30
North East -66 1 - - 17

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 44 (7.33%) Confluence
2 21 (3.50%) CMS
3 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.50%) Drupal
5 1 (0.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 16 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.17%) Moqups
6 6 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.83%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.33%) Trello
9 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (3.33%) Workfront
2 13 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.83%) SAP PSCD
4 5 (0.83%) Shopify
5 3 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.50%) iTrent
6 2 (0.33%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.17%) Eikon
7 1 (0.17%) Magento
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.17%) RMDS
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 76 (12.67%) SaaS
2 72 (12.00%) AWS
3 43 (7.17%) Azure
4 20 (3.33%) iPaaS
5 18 (3.00%) Figma
6 17 (2.83%) GCP
6 17 (2.83%) Power Platform
7 15 (2.50%) Google Workspace
8 11 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.50%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.33%) GitHub
10 8 (1.33%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.83%) Copilot Studio
13 5 (0.83%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.83%) Zapier
14 4 (0.67%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (0.67%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.50%) HTTP
2 24 (4.00%) Broadband
3 12 (2.00%) Firewall
4 10 (1.67%) WAN
5 8 (1.33%) DNS
6 7 (1.17%) LAN
6 7 (1.17%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.00%) DHCP
7 6 (1.00%) NX-OS
8 4 (0.67%) MPLS
8 4 (0.67%) Multicast
8 4 (0.67%) Network Security
8 4 (0.67%) SAN
9 3 (0.50%) CTI
9 3 (0.50%) Intranet
9 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.50%) VSAT
9 3 (0.50%) WLAN
10 2 (0.33%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.00%) Metadata
2 16 (2.67%) Power BI
3 8 (1.33%) Big Data
4 7 (1.17%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.00%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.33%) Mixpanel
8 2 (0.33%) MySQL
8 2 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.17%) Db2
9 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.17%) Redis
9 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 74 (12.33%) JIRA
2 11 (1.83%) Git
3 10 (1.67%) Claude Code
3 10 (1.67%) Selenium
4 9 (1.50%) GitLab
5 8 (1.33%) Postman
6 7 (1.17%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.00%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.67%) JUnit
9 2 (0.33%) TestNG
10 1 (0.17%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 198 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 183 (30.50%) Finance
3 167 (27.83%) Marketing
4 89 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (14.33%) Law
6 74 (12.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 70 (11.67%) Banking
8 56 (9.33%) Presentation Skills
9 48 (8.00%) Retail
10 42 (7.00%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (5.83%) Manufacturing
12 35 (5.83%) Public Sector
13 25 (4.17%) Legal
14 20 (3.33%) Telecoms
15 19 (3.17%) Electronics
16 18 (3.00%) Publishing
17 14 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
18 11 (1.83%) Financial Institution
19 9 (1.50%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 163 (27.17%) Product Manager
2 91 (15.17%) Lead
3 75 (12.50%) Senior
4 51 (8.50%) Product Owner
5 47 (7.83%) Software Engineer
6 38 (6.33%) Senior Manager
7 34 (5.67%) Lead Software Engineer
8 28 (4.67%) Development Engineer
8 28 (4.67%) Software Development Engineer
9 24 (4.00%) Senior Product Manager
10 22 (3.67%) Product Lead
11 17 (2.83%) Technical Manager
12 16 (2.67%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (2.50%) Development Manager
14 14 (2.33%) Architect
15 12 (2.00%) Delivery Manager
15 12 (2.00%) Project Manager
15 12 (2.00%) Technical Engineer
16 11 (1.83%) Data Manager
16 11 (1.83%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (6.17%) REST
2 17 (2.83%) HTML
3 15 (2.50%) Google Maps API
4 13 (2.17%) React
4 13 (2.17%) Terraform
5 9 (1.50%) LangChain
5 9 (1.50%) XML
6 8 (1.33%) PyTorch
6 8 (1.33%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.17%) Spring
8 6 (1.00%) Pandas
8 6 (1.00%) Spring Boot
9 5 (0.83%) CrewAI
9 5 (0.83%) CSS
9 5 (0.83%) LlamaIndex
9 5 (0.83%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (0.67%) NumPy
10 4 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (0.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 178 (29.67%) Product Ownership
2 35 (5.83%) AI Agents
2 35 (5.83%) Management Information System
3 31 (5.17%) Public Cloud
3 31 (5.17%) Social Media
4 29 (4.83%) Onboarding
5 22 (3.67%) Marketing Technology
6 20 (3.33%) Over-the-Top Content
7 19 (3.17%) Cloud Native
8 16 (2.67%) Augmented Reality
8 16 (2.67%) Web Conferencing
9 15 (2.50%) Virtual Reality
10 14 (2.33%) Data Centre
10 14 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (2.17%) Driving Licence
12 12 (2.00%) Biopharmaceutical
12 12 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
13 11 (1.83%) Blog
13 11 (1.83%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.83%) Linux
2 16 (2.67%) Windows
3 4 (0.67%) Unix
4 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) CentOS
5 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (53.17%) Roadmaps
2 212 (35.33%) Agile
3 170 (28.33%) Product Roadmap
4 161 (26.83%) AI
5 145 (24.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 142 (23.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 124 (20.67%) Decision-Making
8 110 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
9 101 (16.83%) Product Strategy
10 100 (16.67%) Customer Experience
11 94 (15.67%) Product Vision
12 89 (14.83%) Analytics
13 87 (14.50%) Project Management
13 87 (14.50%) User Stories
14 86 (14.33%) Software Engineering
15 84 (14.00%) Product Backlog
16 73 (12.17%) Mentoring
16 73 (12.17%) User Experience
17 69 (11.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 69 (11.50%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 47 (7.83%) Java
2 42 (7.00%) Python
3 16 (2.67%) SQL
4 12 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.00%) TypeScript
5 11 (1.83%) C++
6 9 (1.50%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.83%) ABAP
7 5 (0.83%) R
8 4 (0.67%) Bash
8 4 (0.67%) C#
9 3 (0.50%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.50%) PHP
10 2 (0.33%) Perl
11 1 (0.17%) Bicep
11 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 151 (25.17%) Degree
2 43 (7.17%) Master's Degree
3 34 (5.67%) Security Cleared
4 31 (5.17%) MBA
5 29 (4.83%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.83%) HND
8 10 (1.67%) HNC
8 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.50%) PhD
9 9 (1.50%) PMP
10 8 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.17%) CCNA
11 7 (1.17%) CSPO
11 7 (1.17%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.00%) MCSE
13 5 (0.83%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.67%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.33%) QA
2 20 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.33%) SLA
4 10 (1.67%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.50%) PMO
6 7 (1.17%) GDPR
7 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.33%) DICOM
8 2 (0.33%) GRC
8 2 (0.33%) HL7
8 2 (0.33%) NIST
8 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) PERC
9 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (1.50%) Docker
1 9 (1.50%) Firmware
1 9 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (1.00%) vSphere
3 5 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (1.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.17%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.50%) WSUS
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.17%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.17%) Kibana
5 1 (0.17%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 56 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 25 (4.17%) Google
4 23 (3.83%) Adobe
5 17 (2.83%) OpenAI
6 16 (2.67%) Cisco
6 16 (2.67%) Facebook
7 12 (2.00%) Oracle
7 12 (2.00%) SAP
7 12 (2.00%) Workday
8 9 (1.50%) VMware
9 6 (1.00%) FIS
9 6 (1.00%) Juniper
10 5 (0.83%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.83%) YouTube
11 3 (0.50%) Aderant
11 3 (0.50%) Fujitsu
11 3 (0.50%) iManage
11 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.50%) Starlink